On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:32:09PM -0000, Danny Boy wrote: > I run the command as you suggested, hope it helps.
Indeed it does. According to the lspci output that was attached, you do have an Intel i965 video chipset. A lot of people with that chipset have had frequent freezes of their display when running with desktop effects/compiz as described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359392 and so compiz has been blacklisted for systems with that chip set. I highly encourage you to subscribe to bug 359392, as developers are actively working on addressing this issue and you may be to assist them in debugging and testing proposed fixes. If you *really* want to enable desktop effects, you can override the blacklist check by running "env SKIP_CHECKS=yes compiz --replace" manually, though it is not a persistent setting, so if you log out of your desktop session and log back in, desktop effects will be disabled. And of course, bug 359392 may get triggered. > I tried reverting the video driver to the intrepid version, as suggested > in the link below, but I got still got the same error while trying > to enable the desktop effects. If you need any more feedback from me, > please let me know. Also, if you could point me in the right direction > of finding a workaround for this it would be great, as everything else > works fine. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTartler/X/RevertingIntelDriverTo2.4 I don't believe it's a recommended workaround, but with this in place, you'd still need to skip the compiz blacklist check as described above. (I believe Reinhard drew up that page for i945 users that were seeing a significant performance regression in jaunty, rather than the i965 freezes, but I could be mistaken.) Thanks for your patience and interest in helping improve Ubuntu! -- Steve Beattie <[email protected]> http://NxNW.org/~steve/ -- Desktop Effects don't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368722 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
